I'm Girish Patil, a moving resident of Hubli and Bangalore, India.

I am from Hubli, Karnataka but keep moving in between Hubli and Bangalore when am not hiking or travelling.

Started my professional life as a freelancer (2012), built a couple of things, got into engineering college in 2014, dropped off towards end of 2nd year while me and few of my friends built products from my room in Hubli. One of the interesting product was a last mile hyper-local delivery company called Fastpack (2017 - 2018), ran it for a year and half, had to shut it down for personal reasons.

Built many other things before Fastpack, which were all run for some time and shutdown, but with each and every project, I always learnt a lot. I have freelanced for companies and engineering colleges as well during these years.

The official professional life started when I joined Hashnode in 2018, so many wonderful things happened during my time at Hashnode and I spent my 5 years (left in Nov 2023) at the company being one of the early engineers and team members. I quit in 2023 year end to spend time around other things that I loved and wanted to. During this time I did a lot of outdoor things, reset my health priorities, had some lows and highs, but the most important thing I took away was a much clearer understanding of what I value and what I want from work and life.

Working with Indiahikes as Frontend Tech Lead since April 2024, cutting infrastructure costs, building deployment tooling, and shipping a full rentals platform on Medusa.js. In parallel, consulted at Warshall Technologies on RAG and AI systems (Jul-Sep 2025).

Also building Certhive , an e-certificate SaaS, on the side. Focusing on fitness: running, rock climbing, badminton, and long hours on the trail.

Honestly, no grand plan. What I do know: I want to build things that matter, work with people who are genuinely good at what they do, and spend more time outdoors. If you're building something interesting, I'm always open to a conversation.

Reach me at girish@evilhead.me

If you have come all the way down here, you might be interested in some of my life quests that I feel I did and plan to do in future.